1. What are some key features of representative government?
Bell Work-Wednesday, January 24, 2018
What are some key features of representative government?
Limited gov, consent of jury trials, etc.

2. US HISTORY USHC 1.2 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Analyze the early development of representative government and political rights in the American colonies, including the influence of the British political system and the rule of law as written in the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights, and the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.

3. What lead to the American Revolutionary War?
Objective/Focus Question
Analyze the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.
What lead to the American Revolutionary War?

4. Talk about the events that lead to the American Revolution.
“I Can” Statements
I can…
Talk about the events that lead to the American Revolution.

5. Mini-lesson/Student work: Road to Revolution
Create a timeline of the major events that lead to the American Revolution.
Proclamation Line
Lexington and Concord
Intolerable Acts
Sugar Act
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
French and Indian War
Stamp Act
Boston Massacre
Townshend Acts

6. Event Year Description
French & Indian War
1754
A conflict between Great Britain and France in North America. Caused Great Britain to go into debt and resulted in colonists feeling thy were being unfairly taxed.
Proclamation Line
1763
An imaginary line that separated colonial settlers from Indians after the French and Indian War to reduce conflict, causing much resentment among settlers
Sugar Act
1764
Placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and molasses. Colonists avoided tax by smuggling.
Stamp Act
1765
Required colonists to pay a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents and playing cards.
Townshend Act
1767
Imposed a tax on items including paint, tea, glass, and paper. Protest of this Act led to the Boston Massacre.
Boston Massacre
1770
5 colonists were killed by British Troops. It is remembered as a key event in helping to galvanize the colonial public to the Patriot cause.
Tea Act
May 1773
Granted the East India Company an exclusive license to sell tea in colonies. Colonist were having to pay double the price.
Boston Tea Party
Dec. 1773
Bostonians, dressed as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea in the Boston Harbor in response to the Tea Act.
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
1774
Passed in retaliation of Boston Tea Party. It was a package of five laws.
Lexington and Concord
1775
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

7. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and... that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations… evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government…

8. Salutary Neglect

9. The French and Indian War

10. Wars Cost Money

11. Cost of Quartering Troops
in the colonies

12. NO MORE
Salutary Neglect

13. Proclamation Line of 1763

14. Parliament Taxes the Colonies
Sugar Act (1764)
Stamp Act (1765)
Townshend Acts (1767)

15. Smuggling
A Serious Problem
Photo Credit: Mary Harrsch

16. IMPORT Tax on Foreign Sugar
The Sugar Act
1764
IMPORT Tax on Foreign Sugar
ADMIRALTY COURTS
Jury Trials

17. INTERNAL Tax on legal documents
The Stamp Act
1765
INTERNAL Tax on legal documents
MASS RESISTANCE
Boycotts
Mob Violence

18. NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

19. HERE HERE Taxing Authority
NOTE: The colonists did not want to be represented in Parliament, where their representatives could have been outnumbered. They believed that only their representatives in their own colonial legislatures could legitimately tax them.

20. Resistance Movement(s)
Sons of Liberty
Resistance Movement(s)
Intimidation
Mass Protests

21. Reduced dependence on British textiles
Daughters of Liberty
Homespun Fabric
Reduced dependence on British textiles

23. INTERNAL Tax on legal documents
The Stamp Act
1765
INTERNAL Tax on legal documents
REPEALED
MASS RESISTANCE
Boycotts
Mob Violence

24. Parliament’s Not Done

25. Townshend Acts
1767
Tax on Imports

26. These Guys Again

27. More of
These Guys

28. Confrontation between British Troops and a Rowdy Mob
Boston Massacre
1770

30. NOT GUILTY

31. Townshend Acts
With one exception...
1767
Tax on Imports
REPEALED

32. Just because we don’t tax... doesn’t mean that we can’t!

33. The Coast is Clear?
Photo Credit: Wendell

34. Leading to the Revolution
The Chain of Events
Leading to the Revolution
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Lexington & Concord
Photo Credit: Darwin Bell

35. Parliament Grants a Monopoly to a British Company
The Tea Act
1773
Photo Credit: John-Morgan

36. Boston Tea Party
1773

37. Intolerable Acts
1774
MARTIAL LAW

38. Intolerable Acts 1774 Boston Port Act Quartering Act Quebec Act
Massachusetts Government Act
Quartering Act
Administration of Justice Act
Quebec Act

39. OBJECTIVE: Seize the Arsenal
Lexington & Concord
1775
OBJECTIVE: Seize the Arsenal

40. THE SHOT heard ‘round the world Artist: Don Troiani
Image Courtesy of The National Guard

41. Lexington & Concord
1775
The British Retreat

42. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies...The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
Why did we start the American Revolution?

43. What lead to the American Revolutionary War?
Turn & Talk
What lead to the American Revolutionary War?

44. Reminder Quiz Friday, January 26, 2018 Colonial America
Representative Government

45. Quiz Review
Southern Colonies: rural, farms/plantations spread miles apart, good soil, warm climate
New England (Northern Colonies)—Plymouth Bay Colony, Massachusetts: came to the American colonies because of religious reasons, persecuted religious dissenters, poor soil, cool climate
Colonies developed along rivers near the ocean, why?
Describe mercantilism. An economic policy—trade generates wealth—laws passed to protect trade and merchants
Motives to establish colonies? Religious motives, and economic reasons. Settled along rivers, close to oceans, farming, etc.
On a map, label the following: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina. Be able to label which region each colony is a part of.

46. Flocabulary Quiz